Maiya Lea Hartman

Maiya Lea Hartman is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and muralist based in Minneapolis. They create in various mediums such as drawing, painting, ceramics, and mixed media. Their work is heavily figurative, with current work examining traditions of the African diaspora and including textiles and symbols.

In 2019, Maiya was accepted as one of nine artists in Studio 400, an incubator program for early-career artists. Since then, Hartman has exhibited their work in many group shows, including The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings (2019) at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, where their earlier drawings were displayed alongside those of Henri Mattisse, Diego Rivera, and others. Hartman was a 2021 VSA Emerging Young Artist award recipient, annually given by the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Their first solo exhibition, titled That Which Does Not Burn, opened in July 2022 at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in North Minneapolis. Hartman was a 2022 Next Step Fund Recipient and is the current artist in residence with the ALVERA apartments in St. Paul.